Basic Info
First Air: October 10, 2006
Status: Returning Series
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 13
Last Episode
Name: Guns for Hunters, Sport and Protection
Season: 1, Episode: 13
Air Date: 2017-02-07
Runtime: 22 min
The ownership of guns in America for hunters and enthusiasts has been a long standing tradition, and gun culture continues to be part of the fabric of American life.
American Guns A History of US Firearms
2006
1 seasons
13 episodes
Overview
This series consists of 13 twenty-two minute episodes tracing the history of the development, evolution, and use of guns in America from the earliest matchlocks brought to the American continents by Spanish conquistadors through the flintlock long rifles of the American Revolution, the percussion muskets and revolvers of the Civil War, and the sixguns and lever action rifles of the Old West. It continues though 20th century military conflicts including WWI and WWII, and traces the history of sporting arms through the modern sporting rifles popular today.
